{"id":1650,"date":"2016-05-12T14:46:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T18:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2016-05-12T14:46:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T18:46:10","slug":"before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/2016\/05\/before\/","title":{"rendered":"Before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 12:15 am the day I leave for my study abroad and I just started packing, in my typical procrastinator fashion. Ironically, I&#8217;m very much the planner, I just continually put off carrying out those plans. I told myself that I would try to change that before studying abroad, but clearly that didn&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n<p>I go back and forth between excited and terrified (in a good way?) because I&#8217;ve never been out of the country or really traveled alone before. Even though we have an extensive itinerary, I still\u00a0feel like I have no idea what&#8217;s going to happen, hence the excitement and apprehension. I guess we&#8217;ll see which side wins out when I try to navigate customs later today: will I be the overzealous\u00a0student who can&#8217;t stop chattering to any and all or the\u00a0anxious student who may or may not be on the verge of a breakdown? \u00a0(I&#8217;m betting on a panic attack.)<\/p>\n<p>See you in Rome.<\/p>\n<p>-R. Vahey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 12:15 am the day I leave for my study abroad and I just started packing, in my typical procrastinator fashion. Ironically, I&#8217;m very much the planner, I just continually put off carrying out those plans. I told myself that I would try to change that before studying abroad, but clearly that didn&#8217;t happen. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1651,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions\/1651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}